What a fantastic program. The Smithsonian Institute sponsored a Museum Day that allowed families across America to visit our favorite museums on this one day for free. And what with Matthew being a rocket aficionado chose to visit our very own US Space & Rocket Center. And when I mean that Matthew is a rocket aficionado I mean this boy can tell you the difference between a "shuttle" rocket, a "booster" rocket, a "BIG" rocket and Daddy's ever popular "tickle" rocket that will have Matthew in stitches in no time.
Matthew will make it clear that his favorite is the BIG rocket (accompanied by saliva-choked rocket motor sounds and a finger lifting to the heavens). Otherwise known as the Saturn V, he loves to point out this landmark from a distance anywhere in Huntsville. At home his imagination of rockets takes off in a variety of ways. We have 'stomp' rockets that he loves to blast across the living room or at his sister. Daddy bought Estes motorized rockets that Matthew would rather carry with him into school as puncture hazards and fire hazards. And Matthew loves watching rockets on the ipad (pronounced "uh-put"), specifically SpaceX's especially cool Grasshopper, and ba particularly loud HD video of the Shuttle Discovery blasting off into space and into the imagination of children everywhere.
But on Museum Day Matthew got to walk up close to his favorites: BIG rocket, shuttle rocket and booster rocket. He was accompanied by Daddy, Mommy, Baby Charlotte and Poppie. Daddy remembers when he was a little boy and Poppie would take him to airshows and museums and planetariums and then out into the fields to watch Haley's Comet and the moons of Jupiter. Having Poppie with us made the day extra special for three generations of Lindgren rocketeers, armchair pilots, would-be astronomers and plane jane geeks. And we are so very thankful we could spend this day with our little geek in America's favorite rocket park.
BIG rocket from a little boy's point of view... ready to blast off into the imagination!
Mateo von Stink Chub explaining how exhaust gas accelerates at peak efficiency in a de Laval nozzle
Someone please kindly tell Dr. von Stink Chub that we are about to launch the rocket
Matthew's food tubes are a lot like what they eat on the
space station. Coincidentally, Matthew's diapers are a lot like what astronauts wear too... sans the pictures of Tow-Mater or Cookie Monster.
Matthew confidently explaining something that Daddy has no earthly clue about what it does....
This baby girl is just enjoying the rays!
Matthew found a play space capsule in the Davidson Center that was a HUGE hit for every boy and girl!
Little boy, big dreams.
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